Babies are cute because of their face structure and their sounds. Adult brains find the faces features of babies' faces cute. This signature cute baby face is called Kindchenschema (or baby scheme in English). Our brains seemed to be hardwired to find baby features cute and this is probably related to survival. We are compelled by the power of the baby’s cuteness to care and nurture for it. This works out great when you consider that many mammal’s baby’s take many months and years to be able to fend for themselves.
This power of cuteness isn’t limited to survival. The spillover effects are that cuteness and taking care of a baby might make us more empathetic and there is even research to show that looking at cute things, even cute fictional characters might boost our concentration.
So, there you go! Look at a few cute kittens and then get back to work.
A note on Konrad Lorenz:
Konrad Lorenz was an ethologist and widely considered the father of animal behaviour studies. He’s famous for his duck imprinting experiments among others. But, he has some shady facets to his life. During the 1940s, Lorenz applied for application to the Nazi party and even contributed. Later in his life though, he is recorded to have regretted his involvement with the party and his work for them, expressing that he didn’t really know the extent of the atrocities. Many science historians have wondered to what extent his work was influenced by his affiliations with the party and its Nationalist Socialist ideology.
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